Welcome to the 4th LD debate entertaining cases tournament!
The tournament will take place at our last practices of the year:
Monday, 12/1/25: Prelims
Thursday, 12/4/25 (online): Prelims
Monday, 12/8/25: Elims
You should be able to access all documents linked from the site if you are a member of the LD debate google group. If a document is not accessible, please let me know. If you are not a part of the google group, you should be able to access all of the 2025 information documents using your school email.
Vote for the best cases by Sunday at midnight!
Suggest ideas for bingo card squares for entertaining cases elims! Fill out by 8 PM on Sunday.
Competitor sign up form: Due on Friday, November 28th link
Judging only sign up form: Due on Saturday, November 29th link
Case submission form: Due on Saturday, November 29th link
Add your paradigm: Due on Saturday, November 29th link
Peer case review form: Due on Sunday, December 30th link
Strikes: Due on Sunday, December 30th link
This is meant to be fun, not serious. You can participate no matter how experienced or inexperienced you are. We have had novices win the tournament. There is a lot of luck. At this tournament, times are cut in half, cases are written to be insane, and you never run your own cases. It is designed for chaos.
Most prelim rounds will be on Monday, December 1st and Thursday, December 4th. Elim rounds will be at practice on Monday, December 8th.
There will be prizes for people who make it to elims, the best cases, and the people with the highest speaker points. There will also be a raffle for judges where each round you judge gets your name entered once.
Availability for prelims
You can participate if you can only attend on Monday the 1st or on Thursday the 4th. If you can only attend one, it may be helpful if you could do a round outside of normal practice times.
You can also participate in the prelim rounds if you cannot attend the last practice on the 8th; you just would not be able to go to elim rounds.
Partial participation
If you cannot attend the last practice on the 8th, you can still compete in prelims and just not go to elims.
If you can’t fully participate, you can sign up to only judge. Last year we had more people who wanted to judge than we had judging spots. Please try to participate. It’s more fun if more people participate.
You can also participate without writing cases (although I wouldn’t recommend it).
You can submit a case if you are only judging.
If a bunch of people can make prelims but not elims, it’ll make a mess. Please try to make it to elims if you break.
I don’t like deadlines, but I really do need time to plan things out and make pairings work, so I need advance notice. If for whatever reason you can’t meet a deadline, try to let me know beforehand. I understand that stuff happens, but for my sanity, try to meet the deadlines, please.
Friday, 11/28/25 by midnight:
Signup deadline, but please sign up as early as you can so I can know how many people are participating.
Saturday, 11/29/25 by midnight:
Case submission deadline (BOTH SIDES)
Judge paradigm deadline
Sunday, 11/30/25 by midnight:
Peer case review deadline
Judge strikes deadline